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The Squishy Sound of Democracy
The suppression of free speech is a leading indicator of fascism not freedom and certainly not the small r republican values our Founding Fathers advocated in their classical liberalism. I for one refuse to bend to tyranny from any camp… … Continue reading
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Tagged Acceptance, Authoritarian, Bridges, Censorship, Classical Liberalism, Communicate, Conflict, Dangers, Democracy, Disagreeable Voices, Diversity, False Morality, Fascism, Founding Fathers, Free Speech, Freedom, Fundamental, Gaffes, Internet, Margin, Messy, Negotiation, New York Times, Objectivity, Opposition, Perversity, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Points of View, Reason, Resolution, Riot, Self Responsibility, Social Control, Society, Strangers, Suppression, Times Square, True, Twitter, Tyranny
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Thought For the Day: The Founders of the United States Believed Our Leaders Would Always Be Honest and Honorable
“The drafters of the Constitution had made on simple but far reaching error. They’d assumed the people selected by the People to manage the nation would be as honest and honorable as they’d been. One could almost hear the “Oops!” … Continue reading
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Tagged Constitution, Error, Founding Fathers, Governance, Honest, Honor, The People, Thought For the Day, Tom Clancy
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First Principles: A House Divided Will Not Long Stand
“Then join hand in hand, brave Americans all! By uniting we stand, by dividing we fall.” – John Dickinson, in The Liberty Song (1768) America needs to take heed of these words and soon. The Left seems bent to destroying … Continue reading
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Tagged Divided, Fall, First Principles, Founding Fathers, John Dickinson, Stand, The Liberty Song, United, Unity
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Happy Constitution Day!!
Constitution Day or Citizenship Day is a federal observance normally observed on September 17th. On that day in 1787, the delegates at the Constitution Convention signed the Constitution in Philadelphia!! When the 17th falls on a weekend, the observance is … Continue reading
First Principles: Action Plan – Engagement
After considerable thought and watching how American principles are again and again being usurped by those who do not have any greater right to a voice in defining the future of America than we Americans who believe in the founding … Continue reading
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Tagged Action Plan, America, Bible, Biblically Based, Christian, Citizen, Contact, Engage, Engagement, First Principles, Founding Fathers, Future, History, Join, Participate
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First Principles: Better Too Much Liberty Than Too Little
“I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it.” — Thomas Jefferson (Letter to Archibald Stuart – 1791)
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Tagged First Principles, Founding Fathers, Inconvenient, Liberty, Necessary, Thomas Jefferson
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First Principles: Bad Men Cannot Be Good Citizens
“Bad men cannot make good citizens. A vitiated state of morals, a corrupted public conscience are incompatible with freedom.” – Patrick Henry Those who say that what a person does in private does not concern the public square might want … Continue reading
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Tagged Citizenship, Corruption, First Principles, Founding Fathers, Freedom, Moral, Patrick Henry
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First Principles: Our Republic Is Predicated on Christian Tolerance
“It cannot be emphasized too strongly or too often that this great nation was founded, not by religionists, but by Christians; not on religions, but on the gospel of Jesus Christ. For this very reason peoples of other faiths have … Continue reading
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Tagged Christian, Faith, First Principles, Founding Fathers, Patrick Henry, Public Square, Reason, Republic, Tolerance
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First Principles: Good and Wise Government Is Dependent On Family
“[T]hat important and respectable, though small and sometimes neglected establishment, which is denominated a family…[The family is] the principle of the community; it is that seminary, on which the commonwealth, for its manners as well as its numbers, must ultimately … Continue reading
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Tagged Community, Family, First Principles, Founding Fathers, Government, Heritage, James Wilson, manners, Natural Rights, US Supreme Court
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First Principles: Religious Liberty
Yesterday was the National Day of Prayer. Because of this I took a little time off to do just that. There can be no more worthy a pursuit than to pray and meditate on the state of the United States … Continue reading
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